Physiognomic heads
- Louis XIV, in full military regalia, holds in his right hand a commander's staff that he plants in the vanquished Doubs.
- He looks at a soldier symbolizing Terror, who wears a helmet in the form of a lion's muzzle, and holds a dagger.
- The weeping women grovelling at his feet symbolize the Towns,
- whose Number and Identity are represented by escutcheons linked by a chain.
- Each town surrenders its Crown (Throne)
- and its Keys to the King.
- To the left, Mars, carrying a shield with the Fleur de Lys (the French army), tramples on
- an Urn representing the River on whose banks the enemy was conquered.
- In the middle distance Hercules, symbol of Heroic Valour, assisted by Minerva, symbol of Protection, attacks
- a rock, to which clings the Spanish lion, representing the Fortress of Besançon.
- This fortress is defended not only by a Soldier (Military Valour)
- but by the Harshness of the Season, symbolized by a Grizzled Old Man (Winter)
- accompanied by the winds
- and the signs of Pisce,
- Aries,
- and Taurus, representing the Time that the conquest took place.
- Above the King is Victory, symbolized by the Laurel Wreath,
- Glory, represented by the Obelisk and the Golden Diadem,
- Renown, represented by her Trumpets,
- and Peace, holding olive branches and the horn of plenty.
- To the right is the Imperial Eagle, troubled and menacing, but not intervening.